Galileo engineer
By: by Matteo Valleriani
Series: Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- 269; Boston studies in the philosophy of science -- v. 269.; Historical epistemology of mechanics -- 2.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht [Netherlands]; London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9789048186440; 9789048186457
Subjects: Motion; History; Technological innovations; Knowledge; Mechanical engineering; Science; Philosophy; Weapons; Engineering; Machinery; Scientific apparatus and instruments; Communication in science; Contributions in mechanics
Notes: "The Historical epistemology of mechanics ... the second study of the series"--P. xiii.

"Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades an der Philosophischen Fakultät I der Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin"--P. [iv].

Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: The historical epistemology of mechanics / a foreword by Jürgen Renn; title: Introduction; title: War and practice: Artist-engineers' apprenticeship and Galileo ; Instruments and machines ; Galileo's private course on fortification; title: Practice and science: The knowledge of the Venetian arsenal ; Pneumatics, the thermoscope and the new atomistic conception of heat; title: The engineer and the scientist: Was Galileo an engineer? ; Sources: Galileo's correspondence.